Wyvern Drake (CR 10)

This large heavily scaled dragon beats its immense wings and lands two taloned feet. Saliva drips from the beast's toothy maw as it roars a challenge and raises its bifurcated tail, each end tipped with a hooked stinger, poised and ready to strike.

Like forked-tail wyverns, wyvern drakes have bifurcated tails that allow for two stinging attacks, and are able to emit a breath weapon that either burn, freeze, corrode, or electrocute those in its path. Wyvern drakes reside in natural caves found in cliff faces or high mountain vales. These beasts often assail mountain goats and similar creatures or unprepared trade caravans from the sky in order to feed upon their crews and capture their cargo.

A typical wyvern drake is 20 feet in length (including its bifurcated tail) and weighs 3,500 pounds. A wyvern drake’s scales can vary in hue, but always appear the same as those of their true dragon parentage–black, green, gold, silver, and so on. While more intelligent than the common wyvern, they enjoy lording the “superior” status they have obtained from their true draconic heritage over their lesser cousins. Because of this higher intelligence and greater cunning, they are commonly trained as war mounts by half-minotaurs and serve their masters as part of specially trained aerial cavalry (see the Horned Skyguard half-minotaur racial archetype).